Archive for February 2018

Look Back in Anger Opens at The Gate

John Osborne’s most renowned 1956 play, which earned that generation the moniker, ‘angry young men,’ established him as an enfant terrible of English theatre and set his playwriting career off to an explosive start, is currently being staged at The […]

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The National to play Donnybrook

  By: Paul Carton  Donnybrook Stadium is to host American band The National over a weekend this Summer. The band, who have played to sell-out crowds in Vicar Street and reached the number one spot in the Irish Album Charts […]

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Ireland’s astronaut ready for lift off

Ireland’s astronaut ready for lift off

by Kathrin Kabus During this year’s BT Young Scientist exhibition, one special guest drew the crowds on Thursday afternoon. Dr. Norah Patten aka ‘Girl in Space’ hopes to realise her dream of going into space within the next six years, […]

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Disappearance on our doorstep

Disappearance on our doorstep

by Paul Carton The mystery behind the disappearance of the Sandymount inhabitant Trevor Deely on the 8th of December 2000 was again brought back to our attention recently through a Crimestoppers campaign and a seperate inconclusive search from a tip-off […]

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DCC buy Ringsend apartments for social housing

by Paul Carton A whole apartment complex on the Ringsend Road has been bought by the Dublin City Council for social housing.The fifty-three apartment complex which is called The Shelbourne Plaza has four three bedroom apartments, 43 two bedroom apartments […]

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Sailing to Byzantium

Sailing to Byzantium

A new Irish Ferries’ cruise ship has been christened after the poet and Nobel Laureate W. B. Yeats at a naming launch event in Germany on the 19th January this year. The completed hull of the new Irish Ferries cruise […]

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Young Scientists astound

January brings plenty of spartan pain with it, but it also brings delights and one of them is the annual BT Young Scientist and Technologist Exhibition at the RDS. 2018’s event ran from January 10th to 13th and the full […]

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The Cinema Corner – February 2nd

The Cinema Corner - February 2nd

Featuring what is reportedly Daniel Day Lewis’s final performance, Phantom Thread is a stunningly realised relationship drama set in the high fashion world of 1950s London. Lewis is outstanding as Reynolds Woodcock, a narcissistic fashion designer whose independence is challenged […]

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